Wednesday, 8 November 2017

A teenager identified as Blessing Sunday, shared her bitter experience in the desert in her quest to get to Europe.

According to reports, Blessing was among the 147 Nigerians that were
recently deported from Libya and was brought to Edo State by the Edo
State Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force headed by Professor Yinka
Omorogbe.

The Task Force took delivery of 83 deportees and lodged them in a
hotel with a view to rehabilitate them. She was all tears when she spoke
of how her father sold his belongings to raise money to bail her after
she was abducted and kept in a cell in Libya.

Blessing stated that she dropped out school in JSS I and went to
learn a skill in hair dressing before a woman offered to assist her to
travel abroad. She said several persons in the three Hilux vans they
boarded from Kano to Libya died due to starvation and thirst.

“When we got to Libya, I was kidnapped. They made me call my father
and he sold his property to set me free. I am the last child of the
family and we don’t have anything at home now.

There was no food or water in the trip. You see people dying. We
bought provision and water and I managed my own in order to survive. My
father sold all his property to enable me get to the seaside. I didn’t
enter boat on the sea.”

Another returnee who gave his Micheal Ogbebor and had Plaster of
Paris on his two hands said he broke his two hands when the ‘White
house’ in Suprata they were staying was attacked.

Micheal said he used to wash cars in Lagos from where he raised the
sum of N300,000 with which he traveled to Libya. “We met problem in
Libya. I spent eight years to save the N300,000 I used to travel.

In Libya, people were always kalabushing each other. That is tracking
each other boat. I have not entered the boat when I was rescued and
brought back. I wanted to jump from a storey building when I fell.